Anxiety - State of emotional arousal where there is a feeling or experience of apprehension and uncertainty, Articulatory process - Part of the phonological loop that repeats sounds or words to keep them in working memory until they are needed, Capacity - The amount of information that can be held in memory, Central executive - Part of working memory that coordinates other components, Chunking - Method of increasing short-term memory by grouping information into larger units, Coding - Changing the format of information for use in memory, Cognitive interview - Interview technique devised to improve the accuracy of witness recall, Context-dependent forgetting - Forgetting which occurs because the external cues at recall are different to those at the time of learning, Cue-dependent forgetting - Failure to recall information due to an absence of cuesor 'tiggers', Duration - The length of time information remains in memory, Episodic buffer - Part of working memory which is a temporary store integrating information from the other components, Episodic memory - Type of long-term memory for information about specific experiences and events in our lives, Inner scribe - Stores information about the physical relationship of items (part of the visuo-spatial sketchpad), Interference theory - Memory can be disrupted not only by previous learning but also by what is learned in the future, Leading question - Question phrased in such a way that it prompts a particular kind of answer, Misleading information - Incorrect information given the an eyewitness after an event, Multi-store model - Explanation of memory that sees information flowing through a series of storage systems, Phonological loop - Part of working memory that deals with auditory information, Proactive interference - A cause of forgetting by which previously stored information prevents learning and remembering new information, Procedural memory - Long-term memory for "knowing how", Retrieval failure - Difficulties in recall that are due to the absence of the correct retrieval cues, Retroactive interference - Occurs when newly learned information interferes with and impedes the recall of previously learned information, State-dependent forgetting - Forgetting which occurs because the emotional or physical state at recall is different to that at the time of learning, Visual cache - Part of the visuo-spatial sketchpad that stores information about form and colour, Visuo-spatial sketchpad - Part of working memory that deals with visual information, Working memory model - Model that suggests short-term memory is composed of three, limited capacity stores, Forgetting - Failure to retrieve memories,

Memory Revision- AQA A Level Psychology

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